Nigel Lawson
A political colossus
Lord Lawson’s calm, assured leadership was pivotal in securing Brexit
Unproductive investment
Rishi Sunak boasts a hugerise in public spending. That must mean big tax increases
Should we love the British economy we have?
As another UK steel mill closes, Stephen Bush’s plea for a white collar love-in felt ill-timed
There is no conservative case for Keir Starmer
Despairing at the Tories is understandable, but the opposition of your opposition is not your ally
Radical extremes of academic inadequacy
There is something amiss in the academic study of extremism
Why compensate the families of terrorists?
It would be immoral as well as irresponsible
How to mainline true crime
People are tuning in for entertainment, not pure information
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Crocodile Keir
For all of Sunak’s shoddy timing, Starmer’s opportunism was pathetic
Entering the populist Pyongyang
Your correspondent watches the far right debate immigration — but will he go native?
The poverty of miners’ strike nostalgia
We should not romanticise a futile and sometimes thuggish struggle
What’s with all the fuss over Simon Fanshawe?
The writer and activist’s nomination as Rector of Edinburgh University has been oddly controversial